IGP Egbetokun redeploys 54 ACPs to head Police intelligence departments

The Inspector-General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has directed the deployment of 54 Assistant Commissioners of Police to lead the Force Intelligence Departments across various zones and state command levels throughout the country.

This action follows a recent upsurge in kidnapping and banditry nationwide, particularly in Abuja and Kaduna State.

Data gathered from media reports and Beacon Consulting, a prominent indigenous intelligence outfit, indicates that there were 194 attacks resulting in over 69 fatalities and 152 abductions in the FCT in 2022.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, highlighted that these postings are part of a broader effort to strengthen the Nigeria Police Force’s intelligence department.

The move is driven by the Inspector-General’s commitment to enhancing the effectiveness of intelligence operations at all levels of the force, aimed at curbing the rising crime rates across the country in alignment with his vision statement.

Adejobi said, “It will be recalled that the IGP on assumption of duty reactivated the presidential approval to upgrade the Force Intelligence Bureau to the status of a department with the appointment of DIG Habu Sanni, as the DIG in charge of the new Department of Force Intelligence.

“The IG has, however, tasked the newly appointed senior officers to deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility.

“He has further charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience in the course of discharging their duties towards strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the Force. The posting is with immediate effect.”